wow your last drawings blow me out. I mean you changed that style radically. I also see that these seem to be inspired by Laylah. I think it is good idea also that you start a new painting with similiar style as you did with drawings recently. It'd be interesting to see ...

Well... I'm not actually going to scrape it... just set it aside... but I am also not very sure of what I am doing. How to transfer the essence of this new style of drawing to paint... oil paint to be precise. Of course, Klimt immediately comes to mind, but only in very obvious ways. Bacon is closer for me..._________________HonePie.comtumblr blogdigtal art

Well... I have completely decided to redo the big painting... from scratch. Using basically the same composition but redrawing all the characters and probably much of the background... Here are some of the redrawn characters from the lower left quadrant...

Below is a test detail from the revised drawing for the painting. The first frame shows the 19" x 13" ink jet print glued to a masonite panel using "Yes" glue, and with 5 coats of acrylic matte finish. The second frame shows the panel with a coat of thinned titanium white oil paint to knock back the intensity of the lines and add a small brush stroke texture to the surface. The third frame show the test with oil paint underway.

I'm not sure i understand what you mean... Do you mean you like the original version better than the new version?

you guessed right. because new version feels too much reworked that it lost feeling

I understand what you mean. However, keep in mind these are underdrawings to be over painted with oil paint similar to the image several replies back, and its also a small detail in a much larger composition.... and, I still like the new version better as a drawing anyway... but I understand what you mean_________________HonePie.comtumblr blogdigtal art

Yepsir... does look like Einstein... and how did you know the guy in the center is named Waldo?

Went to Home Depot over the weekend and got a 1/4" plywood panel, cut to 48 x 76, and some 1x3 oak strips. Put the thing together, soaked some rabbit skin glue to heat up in my trusty double boiler. Going to put a few coats of RSG on the panel before adhering the 44 x 72 inch black and white layout print (which I'll have made this week). I use Yes glue to adhere the print to panel. The RSG keeps the Yes glue from absorbing into the panel and setting up too quickly.

The panel...

Once the print is adhered to the panel, I'll cover it, (being a paper print) with about 5 coats of a 50/50 watered down acrylic matte medium. Then, the oil painting will commence..._________________HonePie.comtumblr blogdigtal art

In the drawing without color, it looks heavy because of the black line weight on the tree leaves and the rock. However, when the multi-earthcolored stone is finished on the left side, church, things should come into balance... at least that's the plan... _________________HonePie.comtumblr blogdigtal art

Version 2. Moving ahead with the underpainting... It looks real ugly at this point. this is actually something that I have to get use to. Having come from a 15 year digital background, the underpainting is not something one has to put up with for very long, digitally... but with oils, it is of course a very different situation. You have to live with it and see the future in it...

OK... this is a bit of a milestone. Didn't get to this point on the first version... All of the panel has been underpainted. There is no white! The values are kind'a crazy and not really close to being right, but the colors are generally indicative of what they will be in the final...

Woof! Now the work begins. Visualizing the composition is relatively easy for me. Visualizing how form takes shape and recreating it with paint is more difficult... That is the focus from this point on.